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Book SynopsisDeveloping original accounts of the many aspects of belief, On Believing puts the believer at the heart of the story. Developing a novel account of the normativity of belief, Hunter argues that the ethics of belief concern how a believer ought to be positioned in a world of possibilities.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: On the Nature of Believing 2: The Ontology of Believing 3: The Objects of Believing 4: Believing without Representing 5: Objectivity and Credal Illusions 6: Subjectivity and Credal Necessities 7: Credal Agency 8: Credal Norms

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Book SynopsisFundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology provides an accessible introduction to the key concepts and principles of the Bayesian formalism. This volume introduces degrees of belief as a concept in epistemology and the rules for updating degrees of belief derived from Bayesian principles.Table of ContentsQuick Reference Preface I Our Subject 1: Beliefs and Degrees of Belief II The Bayesian Formalism 2: Probability Distributions 3: Conditional Credences 4: Updating by Conditionalization 5: Further Rational Constraints

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to the mind-body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.Philosophers from Descartes to Kripke have struggled with the glittering prize of modern and contemporary philosophy: the mind-body problem. The brain is physical. If the mind is physical, we cannot see how. If we cannot see how the mind is physical, we cannot see how it can interact with the body. And if the mind is not physical, it cannot interact with the body. Or so it seems.In this book the philosopher Jonathan Westphal examines the mind-body problem in detail, laying out the reasoning behind the solutions that have been offered in the past and presenting his own proposal. The sharp focus on the mind-body problem, a problem that is not about the self, or consciousness, or the soul, or anything other than the mind and the body, helps clarify both problem and solutions.Westphal outlines the history of the mind-body problem, beginning with Descartes. H

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Book SynopsisFor those working in Epistemology dizzying questions such as the following arise:â When are beliefs rational, or justified?â How should we update our beliefs in the light of new evidence?â Is it possible to gain knowledge, or justification?â How do we know what we know, and why do we care about whetherâand whatâothers know?â How can the exploration of pre-Socratic philosophical questions about knowledge assist with the design of twenty-first-century computer interfaces?Addressing the need for an authoritative and comprehensive reference work to enable users to answer these and other questions, and to make sense ofâand to navigate aroundâan ever more complex corpus of scholarly literature, Epistemology is a new title in Routledgeâs acclaimed Critical Concepts in Philosophy series. Edited by Ram Neta, it is a four-volume collection which brings together foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship in a unique one-stop âmini libraryâ.Supplemented with a full index, and including an introduction to each volume, newly written by the editor, which places the assembled materials in their historical and intellectual context, Epistemology is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.

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Book SynopsisPhilosophy of Language A-Z offers a broad coverage of theories, debates, concepts, problems and philosophers in the philosophy of language. It consists of concise and accessible entries on each of the key terms and issues in this area of philosophy.

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Book SynopsisThe Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume (1711-1776) has often been regarded as a key Enlightenment thinker. However, his image has been long contested between those who consider him a conservative and those who see him as a key liberal thinker. Hume''s Sceptical Enlightenment offers a new interpretation for such diverse images and demonstrates the uniqueness of Hume as an Enlightenment thinker, illustrating how his ''spirit of scepticism'' often leads him into seemingly paradoxical positions. This book will be of interest to Hume scholars, intellectual historians of 17th- to 19th-century Europe and those interested in the Enlightenment more widely.

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Book SynopsisLeading philosopher''s guide to the ideas that will shape the 21st century''Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels''. This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can, and does, change the world. And, in turn, ideas evolve. Fundamentalism, environmentalism and bioethics are defining our future just as Marxism, feminism or existentialism have influenced our present. So what do we need to know as we move into the 21st century? More than a simple reference work, this is A.C. Grayling''s personal and heartfelt guide to the ideas, past and present, that shape our world. Covering religion, philosophy, scientific theory and political movements, each alphabetically ordered entry illuminates, elucidates and provokes. Written with Grayling''s customary fire and erudition, the result is a book that aims both to arm readers with knowledge and engage them in philosophical debate.

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Book SynopsisIn this important collection of papers, Dennis Patterson continues to show the importance of Wittgenstein''s thought for problems in legal theory. Ranging across issues in the philosophy of mind to questions of meaning and normativity, this collection of papers is essential reading for anyone with an interest in legal theory.Table of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction; Moral evaluation and conceptual analysis in jurisprudential methodology (with John Oberdiek); Dworkin on the semantics of legal and political concepts; Wittgenstein on understanding and interpretation (comments on the work of Thomas Morawetz); Notes on the methodology debate in contemporary jurisprudence: why sociologists might be interested; Interpretation in law; Fashionable nonsense; Normativity and objectivity in law; Explicating the internal point of view; Langdell's legacy; Wittgenstein and constitutional theory; Conscience and the constitution; Law's pragmatism: a theory of law as practice and narrative; Law's practice; Realist semantics and legal theory; Interpretation in law: toward a reconstruction of the current debate; Name index.

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Book SynopsisJames Burton is a research fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, Germany. A former Alexander von Humboldt fellow, he has been a lecturer at the universities of Goldsmiths, Kent and Klagenfurt. His interdisciplinary research across philosophy, literature, cultural and media studies, concerns the myriad critical, cultural and ethical relationships between fiction, technology and the posthuman.Trade ReviewBurton’s monograph masterfully recuperates the forgotten or maligned aspects of both Dick’s and Bergson’s works and raises genuinely interesting questions about sf’s capacity to affect, influence, and foster positive change in the world. * Science Fiction Studies *Through a lucid exposition of Bergson and a careful analysis of Dick’s novels, [Burton] convincingly argues for their compatible views of salvation ... [His] study is innovative, elegantly written, and not only will it be of interest for scholars of cultural studies and philosophy, but also for science studies scholars. * Pulse: A History, Sociology and Philosophy of Science Journal *In investigating both the prolific and controversial science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick (1928–82) and Henri Bergson (1851–1941), whom William James deemed an intellectual genius, Burton (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin) takes a bifurcated path. Examining the strange affinity between these two seemingly different thinkers, the author navigates ideas of mechanism and mysticism, immanence and transcendence, and the possibility and meaning of soteriology. Both Dick and Bergson balked at the push toward mechanization, in which destruction of the planet seemed so immanent (as it still does today). Only collaboration between a science fiction writer and a philosopher could lead, Burton argues, to a realistic outlook that sutures contradictory imperatives. Their respective approaches may be said to fuse in fictionalizing/fabulation, which is a powerful tool of mechanization, yet is also capable of implementing a device for its undoing. This reviewer's favorite chapter deals with Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), adapted for the screen as Blade Runner in 1982 under the direction of Ridley Scott. Here the author covers provocative themes like robot theology, creative destruction, and salvation. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Thinking through the work of Philip K. Dick alongside the philosophy of Henri Bergson is no mere contrivance. By showing how each was writing at the edge of knowledge, both theirs and ours, Burton has fabulated a new thought with truly evental consequences for metafiction, ecology, and theology. * John Ó Maoilearca, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Kingston University, UK *In a brilliant act of superimposition, James Burton brings Henri Bergson’s evolutionary mysticism to bear on the divine invasions—in fiction and in life—of S-F writer Philip K. Dick. The vision of “immanent soteriology” that emerges, in which transcendent fictions jam the engines of necessity, not only illuminates the method behind Dick’s madness but reveals the crucial emancipatory role that fabulation can and does play within posthuman thought and religion. With clear thinking and graceful writing, Burton boldly indicates a “perturbation in the reality field” of contemporary materialism. * Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on References Introduction Philosophy and Science Fiction The Edge of the Known The Ethics of Balking Philip K. Dick Studies Note on Terminology: Fabulation Chapter One: Fabulation: Counteracting Reality Mechanization and the War-instinct The Biological Origins of Society Countering the Intellect The Morality of Violence Open Morality and the Misdirection of Mechanism True Mysticism: Immanent Salvation An Incomplete Soteriology Fabulation for the Open Conclusion Chapter Two: Fabulating Salvation in Four Early Novels Solar Lottery The World Jones Made Vulcan’s Hammer Time Out of Joint Conclusion: Super–everyman to Solar Shoe Salesman Chapter Three: The Empire That Never Ended The Open and the Universal The Life-Death Chiasmus The Fictitious Event The Messianic Tension The Remnant and Messianic Time The Magic of Language Sci-fi: the genre of ‘as not’ Conclusion: Gnostic Politics Chapter Four: Objects of Salvation: The Man in the High Castle The Fabulation of History Mechanization and Paralysis Worldly Remains Openings Between Worlds The Tyranny of the Concrete Objects of Salvation Conclusion: Reality Fields Chapter Five: How We Became Post-Android The Mechanization of Pot-healing The Alien God The Saviour in Need Robot Theology Humans: the Cosmic Bourgeoisie Android and Theoid Creative Destruction Conclusion Chapter Six: The Reality of Valis Salvator Salvandus The Believer and the Sceptic The Pharmakonic God Reduplicative Paramnesia (Time Becomes Space) The Fabulative Cure Recursion: Valis as Limitlessly Iterative Soteriology Befriending God Conclusion Epilogue: Soter-ecologies Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFederico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. He is the author of The Last Night: anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure (2013) and What We Are Fighting For: a Radical Collective Manifesto (2012) and visiting lecturer at Royal College of Art, UK.Trade ReviewFederico Campagna's book is a brilliant tour de force that oscillates between lucid analyses of philosophical concepts, bridging the gap between Eastern and Western frameworks, and radical propositions for alternative worlds. By attempting to galvanize human perception out of its paralyzed and bordered state, what William Blake refers to as ‘the narrow chinks of [our] cavern’, Campagna expertly unravels the very foundations upon which our contemporary reality sits. Technic and Magic gradually builds towards a new and striking reconfiguration of reality that merges together the past, present and future. -- Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director at the Serpentine Galleries, London, UKFederico Campagna’s brilliant Technic and Magic is essential reading for our desperate times. This stunning historical and philosophical exploration radically transforms our understanding of the global technological culture we now inhabit. -- Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, USA, author of 24/7Both Technic and Magic are used by us to change the world. However, as Frederico Campagna argues, Technic serves the accumulation of power whereas Magic, on the contrary, protects life and its value. In his fascinating book Campagna makes a parcours through the Indian, Islamic and old Gnostic sources to discover the hidden, hermetic tradition of magical thinking that keeps its relevance also for our contemporary condition. -- Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, USACampagna takes us on a philosophically rich journey that is signposted by new terms and concepts discussed with due reference to other philosophical settings, including as they developed in Persia. His engaging prose promises to make a distinct contribution to emerging fields of knowledge. -- Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, SOAS, University of London, and Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute, UKThis is a book not only for philosophers but also for poets and their readers and for all those who try to uphold the dignity of their spiritual existence. Is magic still a liveable territory? Federico Campagna asks fundamental questions but also has original suggestions how to keep this high flame alive in a radically non-magical world. -- Adam Zagajewski, poet, novelist and translator, author of 'Mysticism for Beginners: Poems'Campagna breaks with tradition by advancing scholarship that explores a common past and common understandings of meta-philosophical concepts, crossing the geopolitical barriers between the East and the West. Rarely does one see such ability to discuss complex, metaphysical and philosophic themes in a light and poetic manner - Outstanding. -- Ghoncheh Tazmini, Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS University of London, UKTable of ContentsPREFACE, ‘The Keymaker’ by Timothy Morton INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE – TECHNIC’S WORLD - Crisis of Reality - Technic - Measure and Infinity - No Outside - Crisis of Action, Crisis of Imagination CHAPTER TWO – TECHNIC’S COSMOGONY - Defining Terms - 1 Absolute Language - 2 Measure - 3 Unit - 4 Abstract General Entity - 5 Life As Vulnerability - Upper and Lower Limits: Ego Absconditus and Double Affirmation - Conclusion INTERMISSION – WHAT IS REALITY? - Between India and the West - Why Seek Reality? CHAPTER THREE – MAGIC’S COSMOGONY - Defining Terms - 1 The Ineffable as Life - 2 Person - 3 Symbol - 4 Meaning - 5 Paradox - Upper and Lower Limits: Double Negation and Deus Absconditus - Conclusion CHAPTER FOUR – MAGIC’S WORLD - Outside Within - Secret - Initiation - As if - Happy Ending Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSami Pihlström is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His previous publications include Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God (2013) and Taking Evil Seriously (2014). He is a board member of the Central European Pragmatist Forum and the Nordic Pragmatism Network.Trade ReviewSolipsism, the idea that my self is the only thing that exists while everything else is a product of my mind, belongs among the most radical and most curious philosophical positions. Nonetheless, Sami Pihlström lucidly and convincingly argues that solipsism is in fact extraordinarily relevant to our ethical choices. His superb book compels us to seriously rethink fundamental existential issues. * Leszek Koczanowicz, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, SWPS University, Poland *Why Solipsism Matters is an intellectual joy/ Sami Pihlström demonstrates that Solipsism is no mere philosophical curiosity but is so intertwined with modern and contemporary modes of philosophy that direct refutation is not possible. His application of Wittgensteinean insights is breathtaking. The book challenges our common sense beliefs about self and reality and leads us to a self-critical vantage. * Kirill O. Thompson, Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taiwan *Table of Contentsprelims 1. Introduction 1.1. Why Solipsism? 1.2. Some Varieties of Solipsism 2. Metaphysical and Skeptical Solipsism 2.1. Historical Preliminaries and Contemporary Issues 2.2. Classical Metaphysical and Epistemological Solipsism: The Cartesian Legacy 2.3. Methodological Solipsism 3. Transcendental Solipsism 3.1. Kantian Idealism: The Rise of the Transcendental Ego 3.2. Phenomenology and Intersubjectivity 3.3. Transcendental Solipsism in Wittgenstein 4. Refuting Solipsism 4.1. Arguing against Solipsism 4.2. Solipsism vs. Realism 5. The Relevance of Solipsism 5.1. Facing Otherness 5.2. Solipsism and Death bibliography index

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Book SynopsisWhat can epistemology tell us about love? Here two philosophers use their training in arguments and reasoning to uncover the role of ungrounded beliefs when we fall in love. This not a self-help book, it is a philosophy book. Free of advice, methods and strategies for being successful in love, it does not offer solutions for problems. What it gives us instead is a reading of love as it actually is. The authors illustrate the fallacies of love by drawing on personal experiences, literary characters and imaginary individuals. They provide examples of ungrounded beliefs in Aesop's Fables, Cinderella and Don Giovanni amongst others, and illustrate love as an inexhaustible source of misperceptions, misunderstandings and misconceptions. By tackling those characteristic and all-too familiar ways in which ungrounded love beliefs arise, the book forces us to question why baseless beliefs are maintained and reinforced, showing us that many love beliefs are built on anything but logic.Trade Review[A Short Philosophical Guide to Fallacies of Love] would be useful for anyone who wants to explore the intersection of informal logic, epistemology and love. * Teaching Philosophy *Love is one of the strongest emotions we experience, and it is a key driver of our actions. Love makes us write poetry, compose sonatas, and climb mountains, and can drive us to despair, up to the point where we kill in jealous rage. If you have ever wondered how we come to know about love – our own and others’ – and whether the feelings that drive our actions are justified, then this is the book for you. Díez and Iacona offer an authoritative discussion of the epistemology of love and provide a compelling analysis of its fallacies. It’s a must-read both for novices and veterans in matters of love. * Roman Frigg, Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK *Love is the object of libraries of books, many of which bemoan or celebrate its illusions, follies and deceptions en bloc. Diez and Iacona, on the other hand, itemize, for the first time, the main forms of the illusions to which love is heir. Each is clearly described, anatomized and illustrated. Few readers will fail to experience the shock or click of recognition on reading one or more of these portraits. They neither preach nor praise. They simply describe, one after another, the different illusions of lovers and the beloved. They write lucidly. The philosophical distinctions they employ are introduced with a light touch and deftly deployed. Their book is for everyone interested in understanding one of the most important parts of life - but perhaps not for lovers. * Kevin Mulligan, Honorary Professor of Analytic Philosophy, University of Geneva, Switzerland *It is said that people don’t pay much attention to philosophy because philosophy doesn’t pay much attention to people. Fallacies of Love is a rare example of philosophers giving what we care about its due, setting analytic acumen to work on real-life ways we all fall into traps in affairs of the heart. * Richard Davies, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bergamo, Italy *Acute and stylishly written, this book is one of the best I have ever read on love. Diez and Iacona's elucidation of love’s epistemology is interesting and illuminating. Their book opens up fresh perspectives and it is sure to become a reference point in future debates of this topic * Vera Tripodi, Adjunct Professor, University of Turin, Italy *Díez and Iacona’s book is a fun-to-read inquiry into one of the most common sources of misjudgments: love. Although poets and thinkers have considered the fallacies of love, the idea of the authors of fathoming love’s misguiding nature through the means of analytic epistemology is new, entertaining and instructing. * Giuliano Torrengo, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Milan, Italy *A provocative, enlightening and entertaining book. Through vivid and amusing examples, Díez and Icona use the tools of logic and epistemology to deconstruct the myth of romantic love, which has always been a tool of social control and a powerful anaesthetic. * Eulalia Pérez Sedeño Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Spanish Center for Science and Research, Spain *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Basic Ideas about Love What we talk about when we talk about love Some fundamental properties of love Truth, justification, and knowledge The fallacies of love Sex, gender, and stereotypes Some final remarks Chapter 2: The Invention of Reasons Rationalization The you-you fallacy The virtue fallacy Purported sour grapes Lost love's labours Inference to the worst explanation Chapter 3: The Power of Desire over Belief The glasses of love Belief without evidence Evidence without belief Love is blind The diamond fallacy Chapter 4: Wanting it all Complex cases of cognitive mistakes The divided lover The princess The Don Juan The emotional terrorizer Chapter 5: When Love Goes Away The end of love The sunk costs fallacy The sweet lemons fallacy Inertia and uncertainty Desamor Index

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Book SynopsisMatteo Mameli is Reader in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, King's College London, UK.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I 1. Cooperation Social Beings Political Animals Superorganisms 2. Transformation Natura Pura Natura Lapsa Regnum 3. Subordination Slaves and Women Slaves and Colonies Part II 4. Essentialism Sciences and Channels Darwin’s Barnacles Ideal Types and Genealogies After Essentialism 5. Post-Essentialism Statistical Typicality Human Diversity Human Niches and Human Praxis Our Common Humanity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKant's Critique of Pure Reason has had, and continues to have, an enormous impact on modern philosophy. In this short, stimulating introduction, Michael Pendlebury explains Kant's major claims in the Critique, how they hang together, and how Kant supports them, clarifying the way in which his reasoning unfolds over the course of this groundbreaking work. Making Sense of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason concentrates on key parts of the Critique that are essential to a basic understanding of Kant's project and provides a sympathetic account of Kant's reasoning about perception, space, time, judgment, substance, causation, objectivity, synthetic a priori knowledge, and the illusions of transcendent metaphysics.The guiding assumptions of the book are that Kant is a humanist; that his reasoning in the Critique is driven by an interest in human knowledge and the cognitive capacities that underlie it; and that he is not a skeptic, but accepts that humanTrade ReviewI have finally found the book I need for my undergraduate classes on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. This clearly written, lively, engaging book explains and motivates central ideas in Kant’s famous, difficult work in a way that will be invaluable for anyone new to the Critique. * Lucy Allais, jointly appointed as Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and the University of the Witwatersrand *A reliable and user-friendly introduction to Kant’s daunting masterpiece. Pendlebury treats the main topics of the first Critique in an order specifically chosen to aid comprehension. This book will be ideal for leisure readers and for teachers seeking a compact guide for undergraduate courses. But graduate students and seasoned scholars will also find much value in this rich and intelligent work. * Ian Proops, Professor in Early Modern Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, USA *This is a very impressive introduction to one of the most challenging works in the history of philosophy. Pendlebury writes fluidly and vividly, and gives the reader an opinionated view of the text that functions to reveal Kant’s insights in a clear and accessible way. Core arguments and central themes are handled with a confidence that will aid both the student approaching this text for the first time and those looking to deepen their understanding. * John Callanan, Reader in the Department of Philosophy, King's College London, UK *Table of ContentsPreface How to Use This Book Note on Citations of and Quotations from Kant’s Works 1. Background 1.1 The Basic Structure of Our World 1.2 Knowledge and Reality 1.3 The Critique of Pure Reason 2 The Preface and the Introduction: Two Types of Metaphysics 2.1 A Science of Metaphysics? (Bvii–xxxi) 2.2 A Priori Cognition (B1–10) 2.3 The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction (B10–12) 2.4 Synthetic a Priori Judgments and Knowledge (B12–24) 2.5 Transcendental Philosophy (B24–7) 3 The Transcendental Aesthetic: Sensibility, Space, and Time 3.1 Intuitions, Appearances, and the Forms of Sensibility (B33–7) 3.2 The Presentation of Space (B37–41) 3.3 The Reality of Space (B42–5) 3.4 The Presentation and Reality of Time (B46–58) 4 The Metaphysical Deduction: Judgments, Concepts, and Categories 4.1 Sensibility and Understanding (B74–6) 4.2 Concepts and Judgments (B91–4) 4.3 Forms of Judgment and Categories (B95–101 and 106–13) 4.4 Synthesis (B102–5) 5 The Analogies and the Postulates: Fundamental Principles about Substance, Causation, Community, and Modality 5.1 The System of Principles (B187–9, 193–203, and 207–8) 5.2 Experience and Objectivity (B218–24) 5.3 The First Analogy: Substance (B224–32) 5.4 The Second Analogy: Causation (B232–56) 5.5 The Third Analogy: Community (B256–62) 5.6 The Postulates: Possibility, Actuality, and Necessity (B265–74 and 279–82) 5.7 The Unity of Nature (B263–5) 6 The Transcendental Deduction: Why Intuitions Fall Under Categories 6.1 The Challenge (B116–29) 6.2 Apperception and Judgment: Why Intuitions Must Fall Under Categories (B129–43) 6.3 Interlude (B144–9 and 152–9) 6.4 Figurative Synthesis: Why Intuitions Can Fall Under Categories (B150–2 and 159–69) 6.5 Dreams, Hallucinations, and Seemings 7 The Schematism: How Intuitions Fall Under Categories (B176–87) 7.1 Transcendental Schemata as Criteria 7.2 Sensible and Empirical Schemata and the Synthesis of Imagination 7.3 Transcendental Schemata as Forms of Imaginative Synthesis 7.4 An Overview of Kant’s Account of Synthetic a Priori Knowledge 8 The Dialectic: The Limits of Speculative Reason 8.1 Ideas and Illusions (B368–75 and 390–3) 8.2 The Paralogisms: The Soul (B399–415 and 421–8) 8.3 The Antinomy: Nature (B432–48, 525–35, and 556–60) 8.4 The First Antinomy: The Limits of Nature (B454–7 and 545–51) 8.5 The Second Antinomy: The Divisibility of Substance (B462–5 and 551–5) 8.6 The Third Antinomy: Freedom and the Laws of Nature (B472–5 and 560–86) 8.7 The Fourth Antinomy: The Necessity of Nature (B480–3 and 587–95) 8.8 The Ideal: God (B595–619, 624–9, 632–4, 637–8, and 653–6) 8.9 The Regulative Function of Ideas (B670–9, 536–7, 644–8, and 708–16) 9 Taking Stock 9.1 Transcendental Idealism and Things in Themselves (B274–9 and 288–94) 9.2 Kant’s Achievement Notes Bibliography Index of Citations of Passages in the Critique of Pure Reason Index of Subjects and Names

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Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of Herbert Witzenmann's seminal work, Strukturphänomenologie, which departs from the traditional phenomenological methods of Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to introduce a fresh approach to the nexus of consciousness and reality. In Structure Phenomenology, published open access, Witzenmann argues for the active mental, yet mostly pre-reflective, participation of humans in the emergence of individual consciousness of all kinds and the basic structure that determines it. While Witzenmann ascribes a derivative or memorative status to habitual states of phenomenal consciousness, even if they seem to refer to present objectivity, he proposes that the underlying formative processes be unveiled and explored through systematic first-person observation. Through his logically grounded and experience-based approach, he contends that it is not neural processes that produce consciousness, but rather one's own preconscious rootedness in realitTrade ReviewThis book is a wide-ranging analysis and synthesis of how the principles and first-person methods of structural phenomenology cast light on conceptual and non-conceptual content of experience and enable insights into the constitution of intentional content and the formation of reality. It is a highly welcome addition and foundation for the growing interest in epistemological and phenomenological issues concerning the constitution of subjectivity and the world among scientists and laymen alike. * Christian Tewes, Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) of Philosophy, University of Jena, Germany *Table of ContentsForeword, Johannes Wagemann (Alanus University, Germany) Introduction to Structure Phenomenology, Johannes Wagemann (Alanus University, Germany) 1. Biographical Notes on Herbert Witzenmann 2. The Role of Introspection 3. Intentionality and the Basic Structure 4. The Deposited Memorative Layer 5. Reality Access and Ontological Stratification 6. Reception and Further Development of Witzenmann’s Structure Phenomenology Structure Phenomenology, Herbert Witzenmann Foreword Introduction Part 1: The Basic Structure 1.1 Mistaken Conceptions Of The Relation Between Consciousness And Object 1.2 The Basic Structure In The Light Of Rudolf Steiner’s Epistemology 1.3 Explanatory Remarks Part 2: The Crucial Difficulty. The Problem of Generation 2.1 Self-giving. Temporalization. Depresentification 2.2. A Seemingly Resultant Infinite Regress 2.3 The Problem of Continuity Part 3: The Proposed Solution 3.1 Thinking Act and Thought Content (Evidence) 3.2 Further Elucidation on this Approach to a Solution 3.3 Formation of Reality and Beings 3.4 The Sub-temporal and Super-temporal 3.5 Thinking Act and Self-consciousness (the “I”). The Concept of Observation 3.6 The Solution to the Problem of Memory 3.7 The Deposited Memorative Layer. The Concept of Objectivity. The Gaze Behind the Veil 3.8 The Concept of Presence 3.9 Structural and Functional Remembering 3.10 The Paradox of Self-giving. The Self-forgetfulness of Supposing 3.11 Results of the Structure-phenomenological Exploration of the Contents of Consciousness Part 4: The Significance Of Structure Phenomenology Advice for the Reader References

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Book SynopsisA provocative approach to the possibility of philosophical ethics, this study argues that all moral positions and theories are bound to fail. Using the dialectical tensions inherent to competing moral claims as his starting point, Michael Steinmann explains what he terms the failure of morality both in classical and contemporary positions. As moral claims lead in various ways to contradictions, the history of morality presents itself as an endless series of controversies. By using dialectical thinking, which has gone out of favour in current philosophy, Steinmann shows how we can capture the limitations of moral theories in a more holistic way. Without embracing skepticism about moral claims, a non-naturalistic and non-relativistic understanding of the good emerges as the fundamental notion of moral thought.Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics reinvigorates the classical notion of the absolute good as a fruitful conceptual structure through which to understand competing moral cTrade ReviewReframing Ethics Through Dialectics is an ambitious and challenging book that addresses themes of fundamental importance to ethics. It argues that, while we ineluctably pursue the good, we must also ineluctably fail to achieve it. * James Kirwan, Professor of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan *Michael Steinmann’s Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics represents a daring intervention in contemporary moral philosophy. Through his powerful argument that all moral theories are destined to fail because of the dialectics they inevitably fall into, Steinmann calls for a new, original approach to the practice of moral philosophy itself. * Theodore George, Professor of Philosophy and Presidential Impact Fellow, Texas A&M University, USA *In Reframing Ethics through Dialectics: A New Conception of the Moral Good, Michael Steinmann offers a novel and well-argued defense of the relevance of the absolute good to contemporary debates in ethics. Steinmann reframes a quite old conception in a novel and interesting way. The idea of the good becomes the basis, as it was for Plato and for Hegel, for resolving the fundamental tensions and seeming contradictions between alternative conceptions of morals. * Pierre Keller, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, US *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Foundations 1. The Right Beginning 2. Morality as an Exception 3. A Different Type of Notion 4. Expressing the Good 5. The Reality of the Good Part II: Failures 6. Five Ways of Failing the Good 7. What Moral Theories Try to Achieve 8. The Dialectics of Generality 9. The Dialectics of Reason 10. The Dialectics of Inherent Goodness Part III: Foolishness 11. Moral Nonetheless Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCovering moral intuition, self-evidence, non-inferentiality, moral emotion and seeming states, Hossein Dabbagh defends the epistemology of moral intuitionism. His line of analysis resists the empirical challenges derived from empirical moral psychology and reveals the seeming-based account of moral intuitionism as the most tenable one. The Moral Epistemology of Intuitionism combines epistemological intuitionism with work in neuroethics to develop an account of the role that moral intuition and emotion play in moral judgment. The book culminates in a convincing argument about the value of understanding moral intuitionism in terms of intellectual seeming and perceptual experience.Trade ReviewHow does moral cognition work? And do our moral judgments ever amount to genuine knowledge? In this outstanding book, Hossein Dabbagh answers both questions: along the way, the intuitionist moral epistemology he develops shows how to resist empirically motivated moral skepticism and to vindicate intuitions as the foundation of moral knowledge. * Hanno Sauer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I: Mind 1. Philosophical Intuition’s Mental Ontology 2. Moral Intuition’s Mental Ontology: Shifting from Philosophical to Moral Intuition 3. The Use of Intuition as Evidence Part II: Epistemology 4. Shaping Classic Moral Intuitionism: An Examination of H. A. Prichard’s and W. D. Ross’s Ideas 5. Towards the New Moderate Intuitionism: Recent Revivals of Contemporary Moral Intuitionism Part III: Neuroethics 6. Scepticism about Moral Intuition: How My Favoured Account of Intuition Rebuts the Neuroethicists’ Position 7. Scepticism about Moral Intuitionism: How My Favoured Account of Epistemological Intuitionism Rebuts Sinnott-Armstrong’s Position Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin's volume sheds new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino and the diverse fields he wrote on. Contributors cover the multiple traditions that characterize Cesalpino's complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology, demonology, mineralogy, and botany.By moving beyond the established influence of Aristotle's texts on his work, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism reflects the rich influences of Platonism, alchemy, and Galenism. Cesalpino's relation to the new sciences of the 17th century are traced through his direct influences, on Galileo, botany, and blood circulation. In combining Cesalpino's reception of these traditions alongside his connections to early modern science, this book provides a vital case study of Renaissance Aristotelianism.Trade ReviewThis volume provides an engaging series of studies that set Andrea Cesalpino’s philosophical and medical writings within the context of sixteenth-century thought. They show that his allegiance to Aristotelian assumptions did not prevent him from pursuing new lines of enquiry and coming to different solutions. * David Lines, Professor of Renaissance Philosophy and Intellectual History, University of Warwick, UK *Philosopher and physician, botanist and naturalist, Andrea Cesalpino engaged in many of the most contentious natural philosophical debates of the sixteenth century. The contributors to this volume unravel his complex strands of thought, draw connections within and across his works, and reveal Cesalpino’s centrality to early modern intellectual history. * Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, USA *Table of ContentsAndrea Cesalpino. An Introduction, Fabrizio Baldassarri (University of Venice, Italy) and Craig Martin (University of Venice, Italy) Part I. Philosophy 1. Andrea Cesalpino’s Epistemology, Marco Sgarbi (Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy) 2. Philosophy, Medicine and Humanism in Cesalpino’s Investigation into Demons, Craig Martin (University of Venice, Italy) 3. Plato and Andrea Cesalpino’s Aristotelianism: A Revealing Marginality, Eva del Soldato (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 4. Cesalpino on Sensitive Powers and the Question of Divine Immanence, Andreas Blank (Klagenfurt University, Austria) 5. Andrea Cesalpino and the Rejection of the Celestial Spheres in Seventeenth-Century University of Edinburgh, David McOmish (Ca’ Foscari Venice, Italy) Part II. Natural Philosophy 6. Cesalpino’s (Aristotelian) Philosophy of Plants: A Science of Botany in the Renaissance, Fabrizio Baldassarri (University of Venice, Italy) 7. Aristotelian Metaphysics of the Vegetative Soul and Early Modern Plant Physiology: Comparison between Plant Functions in Aristotle, Pseudo-Aristotle, and Cesalpino, Corentin Tresnie and Quentin Hiernaux (both FNRS University of Brussels, Belgium) 8. Paratextual Debates in De plantis (1583): On the best Form of Botanical Prose, Garden and Things, and the Author-Figure of Cesalpino, Julia Heideklang (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) 9. Cesalpino’s Mineralogy between Meteorology and Chymistry, Hiro Hirai (Columbia University, USA) Part III. Medicine 10. Anatomy and Practice: Andrea Cesalpino’s Praxis universae artis medicae, R. Allen Shotwell (Ivy Tech Community College, USA) 11. Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593), Elisabeth Moreau (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) 12. Cesalpino’s Theory of Disease between Galenism and Renaissance Neoplatonism: De morbo gallico in Context, Carmen Schmechel (Freie University of Berlin, Germany) Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a reassessment of free will and, as such, seeks to answer the question: Do humans ever act under the guidance of the will? To determine if humans have free will, Rescher first examines what exactly free will is and how it should function. While the literature on the subject of free will is vast, a good deal still remains to be done to avert obscurity and confusion. Rescher leads the reader through a conceptual web of distinctions that, taken together, provide a satisfying contribution to philosophical thought on free will in general.Rescher sharpens his highly conceptual assessment by making distinctions--between productive (or metaphysical) and moral (or motivational) freedom, free decision and free action, motivational and causal determination of choices, durational events and the instantaneous eventuations that mark their commencements and completions, and between pre-determination and precedence determination. In doing so, he also examines the role of naturTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction Historical and Textual Perspectives1 The Nature of Free Will2 Modes of Freedom3 Ramifications of Freedom4 Some Fallacies Regarding Free Will5 Free Will as Outside Causality But Compatible With it6 Free Will Excludes Causal Predetermination But Not Motivational Precedence Determination7 Freedom and Motivation8 Compatibilism Regained: What Free Will Excludes is Not Agent Determination But Agent-Bypassing Nature Determination9 Mind-Matter Coordination10 Does Free Will Exist? Deliberations Pro and ConReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis critical introduction and guide to Gilles Deleuze's 1988 book 'Bergsonism' gives readers of both Deleuze and Bergson an opportunity to discover and fully connect with the philosophical encounter between these two great thinkers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Method of Intuition; Duration and Multiplicity; Memory and the Virtual; Dualism or Monism?; The Elan Vital and Differentiation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWith a new reading of Thomas Reid on primary and secondary qualities, Christopher A. Shrock illuminates the Common Sense theory of perception. Shrock follow's Reid's lead in defending common sense philosophy against the problem of secondary qualities, which claims that our perceptions are only experiences in our brains, not of the world.Trade Review'Although the past years have seen the publication of monographs on almost every aspect of Thomas Reid's philosophy, his theory of primary and secondary qualities has not been treated in book length. Christopher Shrock closes this gap in the literature ... It is easily the most comprehensive treatment of Thomas Reid's theory of primary and secondary qualities currently available. The offered interpretation of Reid's view is convincing and, in my opinion, superior to those of Shrock's predecessors ... The book is intended as a historically adequate study of Reid's views on secondary qualities, but it also follows a genuinely systematic interest. I found the blend of these two tenets very convincing and a pleasure to read ... I wholeheartedly recommend it to every scholar interested in secondary qualities in the eighteenth century or Thomas Reid's theory of perception.' -- Hannes Ole Matthiessen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Journal of Scottish Philosophy.

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Book SynopsisThis collection expands Hans-Georg Gadamer s philosophical hermeneutics into yet new fields including narrative medicine, biotechnology, the politics of memory, the philosophy of place and the non-verbal language of the body, and sets Gadamer in new dialogues with Mahatma Gandhi, Christine Korsgaard, Charles Mills and others.

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Book Synopsis9 essays focus on the significance of Deleuze and Guattari's engagements with evolutionary theory across the full range of their work, from the interpretation of Darwin in 'Difference and Repetition', to the symbiotic alliances of wasp and orchid in 'A Thousand Plateaus'.

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects and translates 10 essays by renowned Roman and legal history specialist Yan Thomas (1943 2008), the most renowned French jurist of the 20th century.Trade Review"Yan Thomas was the most creative jurist, and the finest historian of Roman law, in his generation. No one did so much to study the language and reveal the thought of the Roman jurists. To have access to his work in English is an invaluable contribution." -Clifford Ando, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisWith a new reading of Thomas Reid on primary and secondary qualities, Christopher A. Shrock illuminates the Common Sense theory of perception. Shrock follow's Reid's lead in defending common sense philosophy against the problem of secondary qualities, which claims that our perceptions are only experiences in our brains, not of the world.

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Book SynopsisWhat is real? How can we know what is real? How might we live authentically? These are the three fundamental questions about metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. John Macready guides you through these questions by reading three pairs of philosophers and texts: Plato and Descartes; Hume and Kant, and Nietzsche and Arendt.

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Book SynopsisWhat is real? How can we know what is real? How might we live authentically? These are the three fundamental questions about metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. John Macready guides you through these questions by reading three pairs of philosophers and texts: Plato and Descartes; Hume and Kant, and Nietzsche and Arendt.

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Book SynopsisOver the past three decades, Jean-Luc Nancy has become one of the most celebrated contemporary philosophers. His remarkably diverse body of work, which deals with such topics as post-Heideggerian ontology, Christian painting, the experience of drunkenness, heart transplants, contemporary cinema and the problem of freedom, is entirely immersed in modernity, as he puts it. Within this plural framework, art which he explicitly defines as a modern construct plays a singular role in that it is the very prism through which he explores the problems of sense and feeling in general, particularly as they relate to our experience of modernity. The contributors to Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism fully delve into the heretofore under-acknowledged and under-explored modernism of Nancy's writings on philosophy and the arts through close readings of his key works as well as broader essays on the relationship between his thought and aesthetic modernity. In addition to an intervieTrade ReviewThis is a stunning collection that will be a priceless resource for readers of Nancy’s work. The essays are deeply knowledgeable and together they chart remarkably clear paths through all the major features of Nancy’s world and his thinking of 'world.' * Peggy Kamuf, Professor Emerita of French and Italian and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, USA *The texts included here demonstrate in incisive ways not only how Nancy's writings open onto understanding modernity but also how questions of modernity offer new and compelling paths for reading Nancy. It is a wonderfully impressive volume. * Philip Armstrong, Professor of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, USA *This volume is a timely and much-needed contribution to scholarship specifically on the critical pertinence of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking to modernism. What makes this volume additionally delightful is that it brings together experts on Nancy’s thought alongside up-and-coming scholars committed to advancing his thinking further into the future. * Irving Goh, Associate Professor of Literature, National University of Singapore, and author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (2014), L’Existence Prépositionnelle (2019), and The Deconstruction of Sex (2021, with Jean-Luc Nancy) *Table of ContentsIntroduction (Cosmin Toma, University of Oxford, UK) Part I – Conceptualizing Nancy 1.“Jean-Luc Nancy’s Expectation: Rephrasing ‘Philoliterature’” (Ginette Michaud, Université de Montréal) 2. “Fort-pflanzung: The Literary Absolute’s Botanic Afterlife” (Stefanie Heine, University of Copenhagen) 3.“Back to The Muses: a Di-versation on the World and the Arts” (Nicholas Cotton-Lizotte, Princeton University / Collège Édouard-Montpetit) 4.“After Listening: Music, Musicians and Modernity” (Sarah Hickmott, Durham University) 5.“Fabula, Bucca, Humanitas: On Ego Sum” (Andrea Gyenge, University of Toronto) 6.“From Dis-Enclosure to Adoration: Literature and the Deconstruction of Christianity” (Schalk Gerber, Stellenbosch University / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Part II – Nancy and Aesthetics 1.“From the Abyss” (Jean-Luc Nancy, Université de Strasbourg; trans. Mike Holland, University of Oxford / St Hugh’s College) 2. “Close Relations: Nancy and the Question of Psychoanalysis” (Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania) 3.“Noli me operare: Reading Nancy (Re)reading Blanchot” (Aukje van Rooden & Andreas Noyer, University of Amsterdam) 4. “Streams of Consciousness: River Poetry from Heidegger to Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe” (John McKeane, University of Reading) and “Altus” (Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Université de Strasbourg) 5.“The Regime of Technique: Nancy, Science and Modernism” (Ian James, Cambridge University) 6.“Le fond du film: Worlds, Images, and the Machining of Grounds (or: Blanchot Not/Beyond Nancy)” (Jeff Fort, University of California, Davis) 7.“The Poetics and Politics of Disenclosure: Nancy, Mbembe” (Michael Krimper, New York University) 8.“Nancy(’s) Surfaces” (James Martell, Lyon College) 9.“Between Modernism and Modernité: An Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy” (Jean-Luc Nancy, Université de Strasbourg & Cosmin Toma, St Hugh’s College) Part III – Glossary of Key Terms “Art” (John McKeane, University of Reading) “Body” (Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer, Universidad Alberto Hurtado) “Excription” (John Ricco, University of Toronto) “Globalization” (Barney Norman, independent scholar) “Sense” (Isabelle Perreault, Université du Québec à Rimouski) “With” (Jérôme Lèbre, ENS Lyon)

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Book SynopsisFabricating Origins builds on a series of posts that originally appeared, in earlier forms, at the blog for Culture on the Edge. In these posts each member of the group focused on the problem of origins, examining how we repeatedly conjure up an authorized past that suits the needs of the continually changing present. Fabricating Origins presses these short studies further by inviting ten early career scholars to each work with Culture on the Edge by applying, extending, even critiquing the group, to further illustrate for readers how talk of origins in the present is so much more interesting that being preoccupied with long past origins themselves. The volume, like all books in the Working with Culture on the Edge series, is introduced and concluded by original, theoretically challenging but engaging essays. It provides a selection of ten main articles which draw on a variety of examples to make the case, followed by original commentaries on each, all of which are pithy but substantive.Although not a textbook, and while challenging for any reader unaccustomed to making the switch from origins to the discourse on origins, Fabricating Origins is especially aimed at the early career reader. The volume therefore includes an annotated set of suggested readings on how to rethink origins as the product of contemporary and always tactically useful talk and action.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Midnight in the Study of Origins Russell T. McCutcheon Buying Origins 1. Our Sofas, Ourselves Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University 2. Our Stuff, Our Stories Kat Daley Bailey, University of Georgia Techniques of Then and Now 3. When the Stakes Are High Vaia Touna, University of Alberta 4.High Stakes on the High Court Mike Graziano, Florida State University Pick a Past, Any Past 5. The Politics of Choice Craig Martin, St Thomas Aquinas College 6. The Origins Games Karen de Vries, University of California, Santa Cruz Selling Identities 7. One Coffee Bean at a Time Monica Miller, Lehigh University 8. Marketing Christian Roots Steffen Fuhrding, Leibniz University We Are What We Choose to Recall 9. Remember the Ala-what-now? K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama 10. We Are What Archive Elonda Clay, Philander Smith College Constituting and Contesting the Nation 11. Patricide and the Nation Steven Ramey, University of Alabama 12. Our Disparate Fathers Alexis Glenn, Brown University Knowing When Not to Laugh 13. Searching for Chimaeras Vaia Touna 14. "A Joke's a Very Serious Thing" Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Florida State University The Good Old Days 15. The Way We Were - ? K. Merinda Simmons 16. The Way We Worked - James Dennis LoRusso, Emory University A Little Ambiguity Goes a Long Way 17. Coloring Columbus Leslie Dorrough Smith 18. Tracing the Visible and Invisible Martha L. Smith Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara A Genealogy of the Past 19. Writing a History of Origins Russell T. McCutcheon 20. Competing Christs Brad Stoddard, Florida State University Afterword Origins Today Russell T. McCutcheon

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Book SynopsisKnowing God, Knowing Emptiness examines the viability of the epistemology proposed by Bernard Lonergan in his seminal work Insight, particularly with regard to its possible application in the field of interreligious dialogue. This enquiry is prompted by an awareness of the epistemological questions raised by the various dialogues taking place between different religions, and it is in light of this that Lonergan's claim to comprehensiveness in his epistemology is examined. The method adopted is that of a dialectical experiment in which Lonergan's epistemology could be tested. Lonergan claims in Insight that as his epistemology is both based on, and corresponds directly to, the structure of human cognition, it is therefore intrinsic to all instances of thought. Accordingly, he claims, it is ideally placed to mutually relate any combination of differing positions. This work seeks to test this claim by applying Lonergan's epistemological categories to Karl Rahner's Foundations of Christian Faith, and Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika. Having critically reconstructed Lonergan's position as articulated in Insight, the book does the same for both of the texts selected and then parses them on the basis of the terms laid out by Lonergan in his epistemological system. It examines whether the thought contained in these two works could be fruitfully related on the basis of Lonergan's epistemology, and what, if any, are the implications for the field of interreligious dialogue. These implications are considered both in terms of the theology of religions, and of the more recently developed comparative theology, typified by the approach taken by thinkers such as Francis X. Clooney and others. The book concludes by considering what, if any, are the possible developments that could result from the result of the attempted dialectic.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Bernard Lonergan’s Insight – A Methodological Examination 2. Karl Rahner’s Foundations of Christian Faith: A Lonerganian Analysis 3. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā: A Lonerganian Analysis 4. Dialectic Application of Lonergan’s Epistemology Conclusion

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Book SynopsisKnowing God, Knowing Emptiness examines the viability of the epistemology proposed by Bernard Lonergan in his seminal work Insight, particularly with regard to its possible application in the field of interreligious dialogue. This enquiry is prompted by an awareness of the epistemological questions raised by the various dialogues taking place between different religions, and it is in light of this that Lonergan's claim to comprehensiveness in his epistemology is examined. The method adopted is that of a dialectical experiment in which Lonergan's epistemology could be tested. Lonergan claims in Insight that as his epistemology is both based on, and corresponds directly to, the structure of human cognition, it is therefore intrinsic to all instances of thought. Accordingly, he claims, it is ideally placed to mutually relate any combination of differing positions. This work seeks to test this claim by applying Lonergan's epistemological categories to Karl Rahner's Foundations of Christian Faith, and Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika. Having critically reconstructed Lonergan's position as articulated in Insight, the book does the same for both of the texts selected and then parses them on the basis of the terms laid out by Lonergan in his epistemological system. It examines whether the thought contained in these two works could be fruitfully related on the basis of Lonergan's epistemology, and what, if any, are the implications for the field of interreligious dialogue. These implications are considered both in terms of the theology of religions, and of the more recently developed comparative theology, typified by the approach taken by thinkers such as Francis X. Clooney and others. The book concludes by considering what, if any, are the possible developments that could result from the result of the attempted dialectic.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Bernard Lonergan’s Insight – A Methodological Examination 2. Karl Rahner’s Foundations of Christian Faith: A Lonerganian Analysis 3. Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā: A Lonerganian Analysis 4. Dialectic Application of Lonergan’s Epistemology Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. By utilizing abstract thought systems, humans began to decode the workings of the cosmos. From this understanding, the current scientific paradigm emerged, ultimately discovering the gift of technology. Today, however, our island of knowledge is surrounded by ever longer shores of ignorance. Science appears to have hit a dead end when confronted with the nature of reality and consciousness. In this fascinating and accessible volume, James Glattfelder explores a radical paradigm shift uncovering the ontology of reality. It is found to be information-theoretic and participatory, yielding a computational and programmable universe.Table of ContentsPart I Climbing to the Summit.- Deciphering the Rules of Nature.- The Simplicity of Complexity.- Crafting Technology.- Part II The Downfall.- The Truth about Reality.- The Missing Foundations of Science.- Problems with Consciousness.- Part III A New Horizon.- So, How Can You Be Sure?.- A Universe Built of Information.- Fabricating Reality.

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Book SynopsisOver the last four decades, John Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy has formed an intellectual core in design research, underpinning Donald Schön’s theory of reflective practice, the experiential perspective in HCI and the democratic commitments of participatory design. Taking these existing connections as a starting point, Brian Dixon explores how deeper alignments may be drawn between Dewey’s insights and contemporary design research’s concern with practice, meaning and collaboration. Chapter by chapter, a fresh intellectual approach is revealed, one which recognises the transformative power of doing, making and knowing as a force for positive change in the world. We see that, for Dewey, experience comes first. It connects us to surrounding world and the society of which we are part; good things can happen and new realities are possible—we just have to work for them. The implications for design research are vast. We are offered a new way of understanding designerly knowledge production, as well as the methodological implications of adopting Deweyan pragmatism in design research. Taken as a whole, Dewey and Design not only draws out the value of Dewey’s work for design research but also, crucially, offers a clear articulation of the value of design itself.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1. Design, Pragmatism and Dewey 2. Valuing Experience 3. Knowing in Making 4. Making Things Meaningful 5. Making Things Better 6. Making as Remaking 7. Dewey’s Pragmatism as a Philosophy for Design Research References Index

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Book Synopsis1.INTRODUCTION.- 2.PLANT CHARACTERISTICS AND ACTIVITIES.- 3.PHILOSOPHICAL AREAS OF IMPACT.- REFERENCES.

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